No matter who is president, the global depression will play itself out. The deficit has its own imperatives, the numbers will dictate the solution. Spending will go down, taxes will go up. That's the deal. I'd rather have a Democrat tinkering around the edges, but that's the deal. Fiscal policy is one percent policy and 99 percent arithmetic.
But while the numbers work themselves out, I'd rather have a president who didn't trade in hate.
I don't want the guy, or the party, that scapegoats gays, threatens abortion rights, limits contraception, tells women how to use their bodies, and panders to the gun nuts like they're a band of patriots whose muskets are the last thing standing between government tyranny and the Whiskey Rebellion.
I don't want the guy who throws red meat to the rednecks, leads the tea party lemmings to the ballot box then ships their jobs to China, runs to the right of Michelle Bachman in the primaries, then turns left so shamelessly he never mentions the word "conservative" during the general. A guy who will do that is full of it.
Lincoln said you can't fool all of the people all of the time. But you don't need all of the people, you just need 50% plus one. And "fool" is such an antiquated, 19th century word.
The operative, 21st century word is "sell." We are being sold. What we are witnessing isn't a political campaign at all. It's an infomercial with an ugly subtext. Cue Romney:
"I will give you twelve million jobs, I will fix Medicare and Social Security, I will lower your taxes, I will fix the deficit. I've got a secret plan to revive the economy and create world peace. I can't tell you what it is, but I've got the plan, trust me.
"Whatever you're for, I'm for. Whatever you're against, I'm against. Up is down and black is white.
"But I'm not, that's the important thing."
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